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i detail in the book how my mother was a local nurse to the projects in the co-op city where we lived, how giving she was to everyone she's met. and i learned from her example that that was an important value in life to give to others. >> rose: did you also learn in your experience that you cannot do it alone? >> oh, gosh, that's what the whole book is about. it's how i stand on the shoulders of so many people who have helped push me up, who have supported me, opened doors for me, helped me to learn. you know, i talked to people now sometimes on the book tour who say to me i've done it alone. and i look at them and i say think about that statement. you may not have had parents who could have helped you but i suspect you had someone in your life who's given you more meaning in an important way. whether it was a teacher, a grandmother, a relative, a friend, whether it's a spouse. there are always people who come to aid you in your life recognizing it and being grateful is so important. >> rose: have you had great mentors? >> tremendous mentors and each one of them taught me something ve
i detail in the book how my mother was a local nurse to the projects in the co-op city where we lived, how giving she was to everyone she's met. and i learned from her example that that was an important value in life to give to others. >> rose: did you also learn in your experience that you cannot do it alone? >> oh, gosh, that's what the whole book is about. it's how i stand on the shoulders of so many people who have helped push me up, who have supported me, opened doors for me,...
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city. and you know that was where me and the cowriter of beasts first met. and we kept in touch all the way through writing, i mean we're still best friends. so it's yeah, a long-term, you know, long-term thing started when i was a little kid. one of the editors of the film i have known since i was 1-year-old. so it is a big sort of family production. >> rose: you made this for a million and a half or something. >> yeah, yeah. >> rose: about that. >> about that. it was 1.8, something like that, yeah. which for us was, you know, i mean we were these scrappy guerrilla filmmakers, you know, living in louisiana so it was a miracle that we got the film funded at all. >> rose: you didn't make this expecting to get an oscar or academy award nomination. >> no. >> rose: you made it intending to what simply make the best little film that you could make. >> yeah t was a mission it was a mission whose goal was really just creating a film that we would be proud of. i think that obviously we wanted peopl
city. and you know that was where me and the cowriter of beasts first met. and we kept in touch all the way through writing, i mean we're still best friends. so it's yeah, a long-term, you know, long-term thing started when i was a little kid. one of the editors of the film i have known since i was 1-year-old. so it is a big sort of family production. >> rose: you made this for a million and a half or something. >> yeah, yeah. >> rose: about that. >> about that. it was...
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, the city, the place. what this means to them. >> uh-huh. i get it here. i lived here. ri have lived in a lot of different places as a kid. my mom and dad would take up, my dad would get promoted, working for a company called seeland until he got back to the new york area for the corporate office. but we made a stop here back in the mid 60s. i was here for almost four years and it coincided with the birth of the new orleans santas. so the first football game i ever saw was september 17th, 1967. they were playing the los angeles rams, first game in saint's history. it happened to be the first game i ever wiltnessed. and my dad got standing room only tickets. we sat in the aisle, two rows from the top, just in time to watch john gillium, famous down here in new orleans, return the opening kickoff, 94 yards for a touchdown. and at that point i was hopelessly in love with the nfl. had no idea i would one day be calling the nfl or that i would come back and have a chance to call a super bowl here in new orleans
, the city, the place. what this means to them. >> uh-huh. i get it here. i lived here. ri have lived in a lot of different places as a kid. my mom and dad would take up, my dad would get promoted, working for a company called seeland until he got back to the new york area for the corporate office. but we made a stop here back in the mid 60s. i was here for almost four years and it coincided with the birth of the new orleans santas. so the first football game i ever saw was september...
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that he went into the school, it was one of the lowest performing schools in the city and said this is what i'm going to do, we're going to make this school great again and the teachers clapped and he said: a week later i came back and people were hissing and booing as i came in and i realized the teachers' union had come in and told them this is terrible, you're going to lose your jobs. and the teachers' union spent $7 50,000 to make sure he couldn't open the charter school. and when he told that story and i listened to it i thought, wow, we have something in common. (laughs) "radical: fighting to put students first." michelle rhee, thank you. >> thank you. >> rose: good to see you. >> good to see you, too. >> rose: carolina herrera is one of fashion's most prominent designers her name has become synonymous with elegance. fashion, she once said on this program, is a fascinating madness fantasy. her new estefan tae tasy was to create an original piece of music to go along with her designs for her fall, 2013 collection which she unveiled in new york she commissioned javier peral and
that he went into the school, it was one of the lowest performing schools in the city and said this is what i'm going to do, we're going to make this school great again and the teachers clapped and he said: a week later i came back and people were hissing and booing as i came in and i realized the teachers' union had come in and told them this is terrible, you're going to lose your jobs. and the teachers' union spent $7 50,000 to make sure he couldn't open the charter school. and when he told...
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accusing the mayor of subverting the bidding process. >> bankruptcy may be the only option for the city of baltimore 10 years down the road if officials do not make some major cuts and reforms. that is part of a city ordered to report what it says. the forecast was published by public financial management, inc.. if the city continues its spending trend it will be more than $2 billion in the hole. $745 million includes a budget deficit, failing infrastructure as well as health care and pension benefits accounts for $1.30 billion of the potential shortfall. >> if we act now we cabn teens the trajectory. >> the mayor highlights of your key themes for cuts including identifying strategies to align recurring revenues, reducing property and income taxes, addressing infrastructure, and addressing the city's long-term liabilities. the mayor says she will get more specific about what cuts will be made during her state of the city address next week. if you'd like to take a closer look at our report, you can go to our website, wbaltv.com. >> president obama is hoping to get more democrats to suppo
accusing the mayor of subverting the bidding process. >> bankruptcy may be the only option for the city of baltimore 10 years down the road if officials do not make some major cuts and reforms. that is part of a city ordered to report what it says. the forecast was published by public financial management, inc.. if the city continues its spending trend it will be more than $2 billion in the hole. $745 million includes a budget deficit, failing infrastructure as well as health care and...
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captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: lawrence summers is here, he is a professor at harvard, where he was president from 2001 to 2006. he was treasury secretary under president clinton and returned to the white house in 2009 as advisor of the national economic council, in that role he was central to president obama's the response to the financial crisis, he is here to talk about the scwes officer imposed in summer of 2011 and intended as a consequence so unacceptable congress and the president would have to agree on revenue increases and spending cuts in order to avoid it. with three days to go they have not been able to do that, the first $85 billion about spending cuts will take effect on march 1st, ben bernanke testified to cock earlier today he promised to extend the federal reserve stimulus measures and make made a direct appeal to avoid the sequester. >> the congress and the administration should consider replacing the sharp front loaded spending cuts required by the sequestration with policies that reduce
captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: lawrence summers is here, he is a professor at harvard, where he was president from 2001 to 2006. he was treasury secretary under president clinton and returned to the white house in 2009 as advisor of the national economic council, in that role he was central to president obama's the response to the financial crisis, he is here to talk about the scwes officer imposed in summer of...
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and finally i think there is a school of thought that people whisper about here in the city which is he's going to spend two years trying to draw lines just like he did in the real act and hope that the last two years of this last term he gets back control of the house, keeps control of the senate and finds a way to deal with these issues in a bartson way rather than bay partisan. >> rose: you can do anything in the last two years of your term because the attention is on the election of 2016. >> historically it's not the best possible but to paraphrase the president, we've never had a president before named barack obama and he's defied lots of things. right now, you know, it's common, it was common in the end in the first term to say if you took the politics out of it, john baron -- been without the personalities and complexities of the policies of the house with the democrats and republicans and the senate they are too fundamentally at odds how to get new revenue the balance between taxes and tax reform and spending cuts and where they should come from i think as i said before they'
and finally i think there is a school of thought that people whisper about here in the city which is he's going to spend two years trying to draw lines just like he did in the real act and hope that the last two years of this last term he gets back control of the house, keeps control of the senate and finds a way to deal with these issues in a bartson way rather than bay partisan. >> rose: you can do anything in the last two years of your term because the attention is on the election of...
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>>. >> well, first of all, the the attack of 9/11 on this city and the pent begun and pennsylvania, was a defining event in many ways. and secondly,-- i, the critique i make of what has happened to our democratic system was one that i had already begun to really form. and i believe deeply in american democracy. i honor the profession of politics. i encourage young people to go into it. but i have found other ways to serve. i haven't turned my back on the political process. i am deeply concerned that the role of big money which i described earlier, has now degraded the operations of our democracy to a point that is causing deep concern to millions of us. it really has to be fixed. and i found that i ejoyed leading from an ngo position, advocating action on climate. i enjoy odd the business world. i've learned a tremendous amount in the business world. i didn't expect to enjoy it as much as i have. and so it's been a wonderful period for me, of growth and learning and i have continued to speak out and will continue to in the future. and this book is a part of that process. >> was it inevi
>>. >> well, first of all, the the attack of 9/11 on this city and the pent begun and pennsylvania, was a defining event in many ways. and secondly,-- i, the critique i make of what has happened to our democratic system was one that i had already begun to really form. and i believe deeply in american democracy. i honor the profession of politics. i encourage young people to go into it. but i have found other ways to serve. i haven't turned my back on the political process. i am...
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and the obama people reminded me, remember old pauls in american cities, the kind of politician who knew every pole watcher by first name and all that. when they wanted to compliment somebody who they think really understands how thing works, they would say the man can count. >> rose: yes. >> that's right. >> and obama's guy kos count. >> rose: they could count, yes. >> and so they didn't have what was going on in their favor in 2008, the sort of excitement of it, the people's. >> rose: they are also good at gee-- geography. they can take somebody that wants to vote to the place where they can vote, that's a big deal. >> and this is a more effective method than trying to keep that guy from voting which is-- i did a poem after the election what is called republican soul-searching. says we're searching our soles and we're wondering why, we got beat so badly, our rivals are gloating. its he obvious now where our campaign went wrong, we should have prevented more people from voting. i mean that was their strategy. >> rose: that was the strategy, some people have said that was, in fact, the s
and the obama people reminded me, remember old pauls in american cities, the kind of politician who knew every pole watcher by first name and all that. when they wanted to compliment somebody who they think really understands how thing works, they would say the man can count. >> rose: yes. >> that's right. >> and obama's guy kos count. >> rose: they could count, yes. >> and so they didn't have what was going on in their favor in 2008, the sort of excitement of it,...